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vickybuka's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Alcohol, Death of parent, Death, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Toxic friendship
bookish_ness's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
My review on B&N:
I've always heard the expression, "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude about it." As someone who also deals with depression, it seems impossible. Just hearing those words, it still can feel hopeless. This book gave me a new perspective. I felt I really connected with the main character and her struggles, it was as if I could feel what she was going through. Very well written, I will read this again whenever I am going through a difficult time.
Graphic: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Alcohol and Alcoholism
Minor: Toxic relationship and Toxic friendship
marcostorin's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship
labello's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
And for me personally, it did not stick the landing.
To me, it was, frankly, depressing. It just seemed to say that no matter what the main character did it, it would have always led to her being depressed. There was no chance for a life in which she did not end up having depression.
She didn't feel she fit in the life that supposedly was the happiest of them the doctor and the child and neither did she feel she fit in any other life, not even her own real one. As though there truly was no place for her without the pain of depression.
What immediately unsettled me as the mechanic of jumping between lives was introduced was, that there were only two possible ends:
1. she would stay in another life. Which would have given me the message of: "Your life is shit and the life you wanted for yourself is now unobtainable to you thanks to your mistakes in the past. And the best you Can do is obtain a watered-down version" or
2. she would go back to her original life, which she did, and the message would be "You're so inherently damaged that even in better lives and better situations you will always stick out like a sore thumb."
I am aware that I am interpreting it in the least charitable way, however, as someone who has depression and felt like the main character does at the beginning of the book, this is how it reads to me. so I personally wouldn't recommend it
Graphic: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Death of parent, Cursing, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship